“In the Narrow Road to the Deep North, we often find that even place-names are made to contribute to the total effect. Indeed the whole structure of the work is so determined as to meet the demands of unity. Take the major events of the journey, for example. They are arranged not simply linearly according to chronological sequence, but also circularly, according to time of another sort, where the events on the left half of the circle must be related to the opposing events on the right half of the circle.” Excerpt from the foreword by Nobuyuki Yuasa for Bashô's “The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches”, Bashô, Penguin Classics - Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa, 1966